Thread: Navy Seals raid on Daesh in yemen on the weekend. What went wrong

If you sleep with dogs you get fleas. It is the father's fault that the child was there not the raiding force.

Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

If you sleep with dogs you get fleas. It is the father's fault that the child was there not the raiding force.

Regards Philip A

Thanks Philip, but that is not the point I was trying to make.

Well ISIS propaganda ably assisted by all the "useful idiots " of the World media seem to have publicised this as the main point in the raid.

I wonder how many kids were killed by ISIS on that day, or in the Ukraine.

What point were you trying to make? That often these things go pear shaped or that the Yanks are pretty poor at this type of thing ?

Publicising and giving oxygen to this type of thing just acts over time to sway public opinion against military action which may be necessary to save hundreds of lives in the future. eg ISIS terrorism plans.( intel being the objective of the raid)
Regards Philip A

I don't really know how high to rate the seals, but during a special forces exercise a few years my section was guarding a "high interest political prisoner" and the seals were attempting to snatch him from us.

My section, half composed of "green" soldiers...ie limited experienced , brassed up their reconnaisance several times and the exercise commander called me up on the radio and asked me to relax my defences.

We were doing what any good infantry section would do in the circumstances, ie. patrolling and maintaining the security of our hide.

The commander insisted so I pulled back my men , went and sat in the unlocked CWA tearoom where we housed and kept the "prisoner" and played 500 and just let the famous seals storm the tearooms making heaps of noise and screaming at us. We tried to keep playing 500 but that ****ed them off and they tried to rough us up then.

They were so noisy when we had our defences up it was dead easy to see them and intercept them.

Australian soldiers in the same situation would be lucky to be seen or heard.

Thats just my point of view and a personal obvservation of seals.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I don't really know how high to rate the seals, but during a special forces exercise a few years my section was guarding a "high interest political prisoner" and the seals were attempting to snatch him from us.

My section, half composed of "green" soldiers...ie limited experienced , brassed up their reconnaisance several times and the exercise commander called me up on the radio and asked me to relax my defences.

We were doing what any good infantry section would do in the circumstances, ie. patrolling and maintaining the security of our hide.

The commander insisted so I pulled back my men , went and sat in the unlocked CWA tearoom where we housed and kept the "prisoner" and played 500 and just let the famous seals storm the tearooms making heaps of noise and screaming at us. We tried to keep playing 500 but that ****ed them off and they tried to rough us up then.

They were so noisy when we had our defences up it was dead easy to see them and intercept them.

Australian soldiers in the same situation would be lucky to be seen or heard.

Thats just my point of view and a personal obvservation of seals.

Agree totally. My experience as well.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Well ISIS propaganda ably assisted by all the "useful idiots " of the World media seem to have publicised this as the main point in the raid.

I wonder how many kids were killed by ISIS on that day, or in the Ukraine.

What point were you trying to make? That often these things go pear shaped or that the Yanks are pretty poor at this type of thing ?

Publicising and giving oxygen to this type of thing just acts over time to sway public opinion against military action which may be necessary to save hundreds of lives in the future. eg ISIS terrorism plans.( intel being the objective of the raid)
Regards Philip A

It is not wise to comment on something you may know little about.

Quite rightly called by Clint Eastwood, in a Hollywood version of an earlier US intervention in South America, it was indeed a cluster****.

Yemen Raid: Questions Swirl About Trump's First Military Operation : Parallels : NPR

It is not wise to comment on something you may know little about.

Exactly my point Bob 10.
By posting you commented.
Thus my questions on what you were trying to achieve. I still don't know.
Regards Philip A